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(No Model.)

J. REGKENDORFER, Decd.

B. REGKENDORFER, executrix, and G. A. GOLDSMITH and W- STRAUSS, executors.

PEN HOLDER.

Patented Oct. 2, 1888.

[ME/TM U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH REOKENDORFEB, or NEW YORK, N. Y.; BABETTE REGKENDORFER, GUSTAVUS A. GOLDSMITH, AND WILLIAM STRAUSS, ALL or NEW YORK, N. Y., EXEOUTRIX AND EXEOUTORS or SAID REcKnNDoRFEn,

DECEASED.

PEN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,066, dated October Application filed May 19, 1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH RECKENDORFER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Pen-Holders, of which the following is a Specification.

It has primarily been my object to combine in one the advantages of a hard-rubber and a wooden pen-holder, without the disadro vantage of either, separately considered. The hard-rubber pen-holder is of advantage in many respects, but it is a very expensive article, and is not nearly so light as a wooden holder.

In carrying out my invention I form the body of the penhandle of wood, forming it at the front end with a tenon which terminates in the usual spring-tip, formed either by slitting longitudinally the wooden tenon or by surmounting it with a split spring-metal tip. Upon the tenon I fit and secure a hard rubber sleeve,.which surrounds the springtip and forms a continuation of the wooden handle; and I then at one operation finish and polish both the wood and the hard-rubber surfaces of the handle or holder, for I have found that the hard rubber can be finished and polished by the same instrumentalities as those used for finishing and polishing the 0 wood. Thus by properly staining or coloring the wood and then finishing and polishing the wood and the hard rubber I can obtain a handle or holder which has all the external appearances of a hard-rubber pen-holder,

5 and possesses advantages over either a hardrubber or a wooden pen-holder, having the strength of hard rubber and the cheapness and lightness of wood.

I desire to remark that in lieu of hard rubher I can employ celluloid or other known tough composition of matter which is sus-.

ceptible of being worked down, finished, and

polished or smoothed in the same way that wooden pen-holders are, and I desire to be 5 understood as including this application in my claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a pen-holder embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a View of the hard-rubber sleeve and the wooden part of the holder detached from one another, both the wood and the rubber, in this in stance, having a polygonal external configuration in cross-section. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal central section of the pen-holder.

The wooden part of the holder. is of the usual form and construction, and terminates at the front in a tenon, a, which is split longitudinally to form a spring pen-holding tip. The sleeve B is of a length and diameter to fit snugly upon the tenon a, and is, when fitted thereon, glued or otherwise fastened in place. The pen is to be inserted and held between the sleeve and the tip a, as customary in pen-holders of this type. I remark that, in lieu of splitting the wooden tenon, it can be surmounted by a split spring-metal tip, upon which and the tenon the hard-rubber Sleeve B will be mounted and secured. After the sleeve 13 is in place the whole article is sandpapered, finished, and polished in the usual way. I can, if I desire, give the handle and tip polygonal instead of cylindrical form, as indicated in Fig. 2,- and the sleeve either can be molded originally in this form or it may be cylindrical, and then, after being mounted and fastened 011 the wooden part of holder, can be ground or sandpapered down, with faces corresponding to those desired for the article. I prefer the latter mode of obtaining shapes of this kind, for by sandpapering and polishing the wood and rubber simultaneously I obtain in all cases a highly-finished article, in which there is no apparent joint between the rubber and the wood.

Having now described my improvement, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The hereinbefore-described improved pen o holder, consisting of a wooden body, A, provided at front with a spring-tip, a tenon, and a sleeve, B, of hard rubber, or its specified equivalent, mounted and fastened on said tenon, and forming a continuation and a part 5 of the body A, as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of May, 1883.

J OS. REGKENDORFER.

Witnesses:

O. S. BRAISTED, J OE W. SWAINE. 

